Certain columns are almost like promises kept. As a child, I remember sprawling on the living room floor to read children's baseball books with accounts of great World Series games. I was especially touched by the tale of Floyd "Bill" Bevens, a little-known New York Yankees pitcher who in 1947 flirted with baseball immortality.

Sixty years ago this month, Bevens came within one batter of becoming the first pitcher in World Series history to pitch a no-hitter. But in an agonizing sequence of two-out ninth inning events - including a runner who should have been thrown out at second and a batter Bevens was inexplicably ordered to intentionally walk - the game down to Bevens vs. Cookie Lavagetto, a pinch-hitter.

Lavagetto doubled. Bevens lost the no-hitter and the game. One more out, and he would have been among the immortals.

So today's column was a chance to tell the tale, to reflect that Bevens in many ways was ana wful lot like you and me ... and to keep his name alive.

I also have a question for you. Are there World Series stories or moments that stay with you in similar fashion? It can be moments of triumph, or players that you loved who came up short. What are the stories? Where were you when you watched or listened to the particular game?

Let me know, either here or on the forum, and I'll add the stories to my blog.